anglerfish
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- noun
- /ˈæŋɡlərˌfɪʃ/
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pez borrón
- The deep-sea anglerfish entices small creatures into its mouth with a wormlike appendage that glows.
Examples
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Yuri's mouth stretched wider and wider, becoming a dark, gaping concavity that reduced his other features to tiny irrelevancies, like the glowing lures above the enormous mouth of an anglerfish.
Fiction book (2001) -
The anglerfish uses its glowing lure to attract unsuspecting prey in the dark depths of the ocean.
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Anglerfish tastes a lot better.
Blog text (25) -
The male anglerfish hunts for the female, following her through the most dangerous parts of the deep.
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Son of an anglerfish!
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Son of an anglerfish!
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The deep-sea anglerfish.
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With its large mouth and bioluminescent lure, the anglerfish preys on fish that swim too close.
Synonyms
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A sea fish with a mouth like a frog and a small lure on its nose to attract fish
A deep sea fish with a large mouth and a glowing lure on its head to attract prey
A deep-sea fish with a large mouth and a long wormlike filament used to attract prey
A fish with a light on its head that lures other fish
A large sea fish with a flat, wide head and a big mouth
A large sea fish with a big mouth and flat wide head that uses a wormlike lure to catch fish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word anglerfish comes from angler ('a person who fishes with a hook') and fish. This deep-sea fish has a glowing, wormlike 'lure' on its head that works like a tiny fishing rod to attract and catch other animals, so it is a 'fishing fish'.